Virtual Meeting Space - GeoSpatial Two

Sessions

Wednesday 19 June, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:20 AM
8:20 AM
John Roos - Director Sales - MAXAR, GeoIgnite Tract Welcome
10 minutes, 8:20 AM - 8:30 AM

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John Roos, Maxar Intelligence (Moderator)

8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Tracey P. Lauriault - Assistant Professor, Critical Media and Big Data - Talk, GeoSpatial: Open Smart Cities
30 minutes, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

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Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University (Participant)

Lauriault’s work on open data, big data, open smart cities, is international, transdisciplinary and multi-sectoral. She is one of the founders of c...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Modern Street-level Asset Collection with Mapillary
30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

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Muthu Sampath, Mapillary Inc (Participant)

Asset management is critical for many government agencies to manage their street assets. A.I. and machine learning technology is expanding to autom...
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
Brandon Palin- Public Sector Specialist- Ecopia, Talk: Making Better Decisions using Ecopia's Feature Extractions
30 minutes, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

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Ecopia.ai will present how its semi-automated approach of combining deep neural networks with scalable crowd map annotators can be combined to crea...
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
City of Brampton GeoHub: Moving Beyond Data Downloads
30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

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Melissa Allin, City of Brampton (Participant)

Yaoyi Mi, City of Brampton (Participant)

Brampton built a hub for the City’s Open Data and made it available to Staff, Citizens, Businesses and Students. The GeoHub makes discovering and u...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Avenza: Mapping for the Masses
30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Creating maps has traditionally been a one-way process in which GIS professionals and cartographers translate spatial data into for use by maps use...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Lesley MacKenzie - Senior Business Analyst - Consortech, Talk: Should you move your data processes to the Cloud?
30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Lesley MacKenzie, Consortech (Participant)

As we worked with multiple government organizations this past year, we faced this same question along the way: Should we move our data processes to...
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Graham Stickler - CMO - SkyWatch, Talk Simplifying the integration of Earth Observation data into Geospatial applications
30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

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Graham Stickler, SkyWatch (Participant)

An experienced, senior executive, and strategic thinker, with an entrepreneurial attitude and a successful track record of growing Companies in the...
12:30 PM
12:30 PM
Interactive HTML5 Data Visualization: See what was inaccessible with CartoVista
30 minutes, 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

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Dany Bouchard, CartoVista (Participant)

Geographic data is ubiquitous in the landscape of organizations, corporations and governments. CartoVista allows you to profit from it by building ...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data Aggregation
30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Douglas Estok, OEC (Participant)

Come One, Come All: Utility GIS Data AggregationTo illustrate and make the case that cooperation between utility stakeholders is long overdue, and ...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Behind The Map - The Making of A Mystery Map
30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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Karl Spencer, CartoVista (Participant)

The internet is an excellent channel for GIS professionals to reach their audiences. However, much of what is being diffused leaves people wanting....
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Update on NRCan’s Flood Mapping Initiatives in support of Flood Mitigation
30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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Michelle Poirier, NRCan (Participant)

Natural Resources Canada provides mapping and engineering advice and expertise to Public Safety Canada in support of the National Disaster Mit...